RadioBanter - View Single Post - AM radio reception inside passenger planes?

December 13th 04, 03:25 AM

On 13 Dec 2004 02:41:45 GMT, ospam
(Theplanters95) wrote:

|Years ago I was flying in a friends private plane. I used a Ht on 146.52 to
|make some contacts. My friend announces that we are lost. It took about 10
|minutes before I found a landmark and got him following a road to the airport.
|My friend believes that the HT interfered with his radio compass and put use
|off course. After the HT was turned off and time was allowed, the compass
|returned to normal. I don't know how it happened, but it did! Now I just
|carry my ht on the plane and do not operate!

Despite my concerns expressed earlier I will confess to contacting a
couple of my buddies using my 2-meter handi from an aircraft, with the
pilot's permission.

'Course, he was also a ham and we were flying in a sailplane that had
a couple of light bulbs for electronics. [g] The only way to fly.